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The Empress Theodora

by: Clive Foss

Topics: History, Historical, Late Antiquity, Byzantine, Byzantium, Byzantine Empire, Theodora, Empresses, Emperors, Monophysite, Monophysites, Syrian, Assyrian, Monks, Monasteries

Collection: folkscanomy_academic; folkscanomy; additional_collections

Item Size: 52.5M

"The Empress Theodora," by Clive Foss, from the journal Byzantion, Vol. 72, No. 1 (2002), pp. 141-176, in 37 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. This biography of Theodora (Wikipedia, about 500 to 548), wife of Byzantine emperor Justinian, may be the best available in any language. The author first examines Theodora by reconstructing details from several contemporary sources, then introducing information from the most negative source, Procopius' Secret History.

Introduction
Theodora without the Secret History
Theodora of the Secret History
Checking the Secret History
When and Where Was She Born?

What Did She Do before She Became Empress?

What Was Her Character?
How Powerful Was She?
Postscript